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Just a heads up for anyone curious about Dead Space. If you find yourself getting queasy at all go to Visuals > Advanced Render Settings and turn off Motion Blur and Blur. I thought at first this was a FOV issue but I'm finding it easier going after switching those off (and apparently FOV scales to your resolution).

Torchlight 2 is available to pre-order on Steam. Whilst this in itself is not a 'bargain', pre-orders come with a copy of Torchlight 1, giftable if already owned (I hope you can gift it anyhow considering I have it, just not on Steam) and you can buy a 4-pack that is the cost of 3. It currently costs £15/$20.

I might be persuaded to buy a 4-pack of Torchlight 2 assuming I can find 3 people who want to chip in. Although it might be better of we could get a USAian to buy it as the exchange rate is favourable.

I might be persuaded to buy a 4-pack of Torchlight 2 assuming I can find 3 people who want to chip in. Although it might be better of we could get a USAian to buy it as the exchange rate is favourable.

GOG has an "EA Guns and Spells" weekend, which translates to "Syndicate for $2.99" for me at least. There's also:
Nox
Magic Carpet
Lands of Lore I & II
Crusader: No Regret
Crusader: No Remorse
all at $2.99 each

It's fun but I had issues with it that I couldn't fix. Every time my character does an action his audio skips so he's constantly going "Ye-ye-yes!" "Fire-fire-fireball!" and types of things like that. Tried a handful of different suggestions and couldn't get it fixed. Was just too annoying to play through. Getting a new computer shortly and hopefully that sorts the issue out.

Anyone from the league play on a netbook? Does it go? I'm guessing not, but I'm interested in getting Blood Bowl for the league factor.

Also, total noob-question (but I wasn't gaming on PC when dual-cores hit the market): If a game requires 2.4Ghz single core, would a 1.5Ghz dual core do the job, or are they not really a straight equivalent like that?

If a game requires 2.4Ghz single core, would a 1.5Ghz dual core do the job, or are they not really a straight equivalent like that?

If a game does distribute the load to all cores equally then yes, your 1.5 dual would have a slight advantage. Though a lot of games (not only older ones, Shogun 2 comes to mind) tend to use all of the first core and only a fraction of the second (third/fourth). So a 1.5 dual core would then handle way worse than a 2.4 Single Core.